Although an impartial investigation of the problem of alien versus indigene might be
expected to elicit results scientifically acceptable, it is true that several analyses can emerge …

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Oceanic island archipelagos are profoundly interesting ecosystems in which to ask
questions about evolutionary patterns and processes, and may rightly be considered as one …

In the early 1970s, a multidisciplinary team of forest biologists began a study of Hawaiian
ecosystems under the International Biological Program (IBP). Research focus was on the …

• Premise of the study: The angiosperm floras of the Hawaiian, Society, and Marquesas
archipelagoes are remarkably comparable ecologically and evolutionarily, a result of similar …

The Hawaiian Islands form as the Pacific Plate moves over a 'hot spot'in the earth's mantle
where magma extrudes through the crust to build huge shield volcanos. The islands subside …

Taiwan and Ryukyus constitute an archipelago lying on the western rim of the Pacific Ocean.
In contrast to volcanic islands that often arise sequentially, these continental islands …

Researchers conducting the Hawaii survey began by scouring the literature for all citations
for a particular group, such as ferns. Unpublished sources (from government biologists or …

The origins and evolution of Hawaiian biodiversity are a matter of controversy, and the
mechanisms of lineage diversification for many organisms on this remote archipelago …